vii, 841 pages ; 27 cm

Providing Christians with a comprehensive reference volume covering every key issue, person, and concept related to Christian apologetics, this work offers extensive coverage of apologetics with articles on key individuals, philosophical systems and concepts, biblical controversies, contemporary issues, and perennial apologetic arguments. Valuable information and advice are provided for to a wide audience, including pastors and Christian leaders, students on college campuses, those involved in counter-cult ministries

Includes bibliographical references (pages 792-820) and indexes

Accommodation Theory -- Acognosticism -- Acts, Historicity of -- Adam, Historicity of -- Agnosticism -- Albright, William F. -- Alfarabi -- Altizer; Thomas J.J. -- Analogy, Principle of -- Annihilationism -- Anselm -- Anthropic Principle -- Antinomy -- Apocrypha, Old and New Testaments -- Apologetics, Argument of -- Apologetics, Need for -- Apologetics, Types of -- Apollonius of Tyana -- Apotheosis -- Archaeology, New Testament -- Archaeology, Old Testament -- Aristotle -- Athanasius -- Atheism -- Athenagoras -- Atomism -- Augustine -- Averroes -- Avicenna -- Ayer, A.J. -- Barnabas, Gospel of -- Barth, Karl -- Bayle, Pierre -- Berkeley, George -- Bible, Alleged Errors in -- Bible, Canonicity of -- Bible Criticism -- Bible, Evidence for -- Bible, Islamic View of -- Bible, Jesus View of -- Big Bang Theory -- Bruce, F.F. -- Buber, Martin -- Butler, Joseph

Calvin, John -- Camus, Albert -- Canaanites, Slaughter of the -- Carnell, Edward John -- Causality, Principle of -- Celsus -- Certainty/Certitude -- Chance -- Chesterton, Gilbert, K. -- Christ, Death of -- Christ, Deity of -- Christ, Uniqueness of -- Christ of Faith vs. Jesus of History -- Christ's Death, Moral Objections to -- Christ's Death, Substitution Legend -- Clark, Gordon H. -- Clarke, Samuel -- Classical Apologetics -- Clement of Alexandria -- Common Ground -- Comte, Auguste -- Conventionalism -- Cosmological Argument -- Creation and Origins -- Creation, Views of -- Daniel, Dating of -- Darrow, Clarence -- Darwin, Charles -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- Deism -- Derrida, Jacques -- Descartes, Rene -- Determinism -- Dewey, John -- Divine Birth Stories -- Docetism -- Dooyeweerd, Herman -- Dualism

Ebla Tablets -- Eden, Garden of -- Edwards, Jonathan -- Enlightenment -- Einstein, Albert -- Epistemology -- Essenes and Jesus -- Essentialism, Divine -- Eusebius -- Evil, Problem of -- Evolution -- Evolution, Biological -- Evolution, Chemical -- Evolution, Cosmic -- Evolution, Theistic -- Existentialism -- Experiential Apologetics -- Exclusivism -- Faith and Reason -- Feuerbach, Ludwig -- Fideism -- Finite Godism -- First Principles -- Flavius Josephus -- Flew, Antony -- Flood, Noah's -- Foundationalism -- Free will -- Freud, Sigmund -- Genealogies, Open or Closed -- Genesis, Days of -- Gnosticism -- God, Alleged Disproofs of -- God, Evidence for -- God, Nature of -- God, Objections to Proofs for -- Gospel of Thomas, The -- Greenleaf, Simon

Healings, Psychosomatic -- "Heathen," Salvation of -- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich -- Hell -- Henotheism -- Hick, John -- Hinduism, Vedanta -- Historical Apologetics -- History, Objectivity of -- Hittites, Problem of -- Holy Spirit, Role in Apologetics -- Humanism, Secular -- Hume, David -- Huxley, Julian -- Illusionism -- Immortality -- Indeterminacy, Principle of -- Indeterminism -- Inductive Method -- Infant Salvation -- Infinite Series -- Ingersoll, Robert G. -- Innate -- Isaiah, Deutero -- Islam -- James, William -- Jefferson, Thomas -- J-E-P-D Theory -- Jesus, Non-Christian Sources -- Jesus, Quest for the Historical -- Jesus Seminar -- John, Gospel of -- Justin Martyr -- Kabir (Kabirpanthis) -- Kahler, Martin -- Kalam Cosmological Argument -- Kant, Immanuel -- Kierkegaard, Soren -- Kushner, Harold

Lapide, Pinchas -- Law, Nature and Kinds of -- Leibniz, Gottfried -- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim -- Lewis, C.S. -- Limitation of Christ, Theory of -- Locke, John -- Logic -- Logical Positivism -- Logos Theory -- Luke, Alleged Errors in -- Luther, Martin -- Lying in Scripture -- Machen, J. Gresham -- Maimonides -- Martin, Michael -- Marx, Karl -- Mary, Apparitions of -- Materialism -- Metaphysics -- Mill, John Stuart -- Miracle -- Miracles, Apologetic Value of -- Miracles, Arguments Against -- Miracles, Cessation of Sign Gifts -- Miracles, False -- Miracles, Magic and -- Miracles, Myth and -- Miracles in the Bible -- Missing Links, Evolutionary -- Mithraism -- Modalism -- Molinism -- Monism -- Monotheism, Primitive -- Moral Argument for God -- Morality, Absolute Nature of -- Muhammad, Alleged Bible Predictions of -- Muhammad, Alleged Divine Call of -- Muhammad, Character of -- Muhammad, Alleged Miracles of -- Mullins, Edgar Young -- Mystery -- Mysticism -- Mythology and the New Testament

Nag Hammadi Gospels -- Natural theology -- Naturalism -- Neopaganism -- Neotheism -- New Testament apologetic concerns -- New Testament, Dating of -- New Testament, historicity of -- New Testament Manuscripts -- Newman, John Paul -- Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Nihilism -- Noetic effects of sin -- Nominalism -- Nostradamus -- O'Callahan, Jose -- Ockham's Razor -- Old Testament manuscripts -- Omnipotence of God, alleged contradiction of -- One and many, problem of -- Ontological argument -- Ontology -- Origen -- Origins, science of -- Orr, James -- Paine, Thomas -- Paley, William -- Panentheism -- Pantheism -- Pascal, Blaise -- Passover plot -- Pentateuch, Mosaic authorship of -- Pharaoh of the Exodus -- Pharaoh, hardening of -- Philo Judaeus -- Plato -- Plotinus -- Pluralism, metaphysical -- Pluralism, religious -- Polygamy -- Polytheism -- Pragmatism -- Presuppositional apologetics -- Princeton School of apologetics -- Progressive revelation -- Proper basicality -- Prophecy, as proof of the Bible -- Q document -- Qur'an, alleged divine origin of

Ramm, Bernard -- Rand, Ayn -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Redaction criticism, Old Testament -- Reductio ad Absurdum -- Reid, Thomas -- Reincarnation -- Resurrection, Alternate theories of -- Resurrection of Christ -- Resurrection claims in non-Christian religions -- Resurrection, evidence for -- Resurrection, objections to -- Resurrection, physical nature of -- Revelation, general -- Revelation, special -- Russell, Bertrand -- Sagan, Carl -- Sartre, Jean Paul -- Satan, reality of -- Schaeffer; Francis -- Schleiermacher, Friedrich -- Schopenhauer, Arthur -- Science and the Bible -- Scientific Dating -- Scientism -- Self-Evident Truth -- Self-Refuting Statements -- Sevi, Sabbatai -- Sherlock, Thomas -- Shroud of Turin -- Sikhism -- Smith, Wilbur M. -- Son of Man, Jesus as -- Spinoza, Benedict -- Strauss, David -- Sufficient Reason, Principle of -- Swoon Theory

Tautology -- Teleological Argument -- Tertullian -- Theism -- Thermodynamics, Laws of -- Thomas Aquinas -- Tindal, Matthew -- Transcendental Argument -- Trinity -- Troeltsch, Ernst -- Trueblood, Elton -- Truth, Nature of -- Universalism -- Van Til, Cornelius -- Verification, Kinds of -- Virgin Birth of Christ -- Voltaire, Francois-Marie -- Warfield, B.B. -- Wellhausen, Julius -- Wells, G.A. -- Wells, H.G. -- Whateley, Richard -- Whitehead, Alfred North -- William of Ockham -- Witnesses, Hume's Criteria for -- Wittgenstein, Ludwig -- World Religions and Christianity -- Worldview -- Zen Buddhism

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